Hey guys, would love your comments if any on my problem.
I bought a new mobo/cpu at Frys and have run into a frustrating problem with it now, and was hoping I might get it to work before I go return it.
I had ECS K7s5a Pro mobo and AMD 2400+ in my computer and it ran flawlessly for 3 months but wanted to upgrade to nforce board. Frys had FIC AU13 and 2700+ for $199 yesterday so I went ahead and pruchased it.
I installed the cpu to the mobo with a TT volcano 9 hsf and hooked the computer back up.
specs:
Enermax 300 w PS
(one thing I noticed about the new board is that it uses another connector on the ps, the small square one I have seen on p4s, so i hooked that up and as well)
IDE:
Maxtor 80 gig 8/meg buffer primary HD
Maxtor 160 gig 8/meg buffer slave
Toshiba dvd -r Primary
Liteon 52x slave
512 pc2700 corsair in ddr slot 1
agp ti4200 MSI geforce 4 128
no pci slots used
First thing I did was went into bios to see if all ide devices were there, and they were.
I then ran a fresh install of XP and 2 times (less than 1/2 way into the install) the computer rebooted.
(not normal reboot on xp install)
Once the operating system was installed, I attempted to install the nforce drivers. I received a blue screen in Win xp 3-4 times trying to get this completed. (But it finally seemed to complete.)
Once it was installed I then went to windowsupdate.com and installed the service pack but it kept stopping 1/2 way through and rebooting the comp (no error) and a few shutdowns. It finally successfully installed on the 4-5th attempt.
I installed the video card drivers which actually installed on 1st attempt.
I then installed 3d mark 2001 (took 3 attempts) and I ran it, it closed the program within 2 minutes with no error, just back to desktop.
Frustrated, I checked the cpu temp, it was running 125 F, did not know if this was hot for 2700 so I swapped out the HSF for stock one that came with the 2700 in the box, but that ran same temp if not 1-2 degrees hotter and resulted in same irratic behavoir.
I then suspected RAM problem?? But this ram was flawless for 3 months..... I took ram out of DDR slot 1 and put in DDR slot 2, but same thing.
I went to bed and just held the refresh key down in IE on yahoo.com with a paperweight all night to see if it would crash. Of course when I woke up and checked the comp it was still refreshing but it did not crash.
I was thinking ok. wtf..... I then ran 3dmark again and it crashed on 2nd screen AAAAAAAARGH. Another problem I noticed, is when it crashes with the blue screen that comes up in xp... it goes away so fast that I cant read a word on it.
any suggestions?
It sucks so bad, because it appears that the performance is excellent other than the crashes. It was hitting 300 fps in test 1 on 3dmark and the speed of the boot and shut down sequences was surprisingly fast compared to my 2400 setup.
How do I fix this?????? any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
I bought a new mobo/cpu at Frys and have run into a frustrating problem with it now, and was hoping I might get it to work before I go return it.
I had ECS K7s5a Pro mobo and AMD 2400+ in my computer and it ran flawlessly for 3 months but wanted to upgrade to nforce board. Frys had FIC AU13 and 2700+ for $199 yesterday so I went ahead and pruchased it.
I installed the cpu to the mobo with a TT volcano 9 hsf and hooked the computer back up.
specs:
Enermax 300 w PS
(one thing I noticed about the new board is that it uses another connector on the ps, the small square one I have seen on p4s, so i hooked that up and as well)
IDE:
Maxtor 80 gig 8/meg buffer primary HD
Maxtor 160 gig 8/meg buffer slave
Toshiba dvd -r Primary
Liteon 52x slave
512 pc2700 corsair in ddr slot 1
agp ti4200 MSI geforce 4 128
no pci slots used
First thing I did was went into bios to see if all ide devices were there, and they were.
I then ran a fresh install of XP and 2 times (less than 1/2 way into the install) the computer rebooted.
(not normal reboot on xp install)
Once the operating system was installed, I attempted to install the nforce drivers. I received a blue screen in Win xp 3-4 times trying to get this completed. (But it finally seemed to complete.)
Once it was installed I then went to windowsupdate.com and installed the service pack but it kept stopping 1/2 way through and rebooting the comp (no error) and a few shutdowns. It finally successfully installed on the 4-5th attempt.
I installed the video card drivers which actually installed on 1st attempt.
I then installed 3d mark 2001 (took 3 attempts) and I ran it, it closed the program within 2 minutes with no error, just back to desktop.
Frustrated, I checked the cpu temp, it was running 125 F, did not know if this was hot for 2700 so I swapped out the HSF for stock one that came with the 2700 in the box, but that ran same temp if not 1-2 degrees hotter and resulted in same irratic behavoir.
I then suspected RAM problem?? But this ram was flawless for 3 months..... I took ram out of DDR slot 1 and put in DDR slot 2, but same thing.
I went to bed and just held the refresh key down in IE on yahoo.com with a paperweight all night to see if it would crash. Of course when I woke up and checked the comp it was still refreshing but it did not crash.
I was thinking ok. wtf..... I then ran 3dmark again and it crashed on 2nd screen AAAAAAAARGH. Another problem I noticed, is when it crashes with the blue screen that comes up in xp... it goes away so fast that I cant read a word on it.
any suggestions?
It sucks so bad, because it appears that the performance is excellent other than the crashes. It was hitting 300 fps in test 1 on 3dmark and the speed of the boot and shut down sequences was surprisingly fast compared to my 2400 setup.
How do I fix this?????? any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
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